Colloquium: Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides

G Wang, A Chernikov, MM Glazov, TF Heinz… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality …

Exciton Binding Energy and Nonhydrogenic Rydberg Series in Monolayer

A Chernikov, TC Berkelbach, HM Hill, A Rigosi, Y Li… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We have experimentally determined the energies of the ground and first four excited
excitonic states of the fundamental optical transition in monolayer WS 2, a model system for …

Probing excitonic dark states in single-layer tungsten disulphide

Z Ye, T Cao, K O'brien, H Zhu, X Yin, Y Wang… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers have recently emerged as an
important class of two-dimensional semiconductors with potential for electronic and …

Giant Enhancement of the Optical Second-Harmonic Emission of Monolayers by Laser Excitation at Exciton Resonances

G Wang, X Marie, I Gerber, T Amand, D Lagarde… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We show that the light-matter interaction in monolayer WSe 2 is strongly enhanced when the
incoming electromagnetic wave is in resonance with the energy of the exciton states of …

Excitons in ultrathin organic-inorganic perovskite crystals

O Yaffe, A Chernikov, ZM Norman, Y Zhong… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We demonstrate the formation of large sheets of layered organic-inorganic perovskite
(OIPC) crystals, as thin as a single unit cell, prepared by mechanical exfoliation. The …

Theory and ab initio calculation of optically excited states—Recent advances in 2D materials

K **e, X Li, T Cao - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies of the optical properties of 2D materials have reported unique phenomena
and features that are absent in conventional bulk semiconductors. Many of these interesting …

Excitonic effects in the optical properties of a SiC sheet and nanotubes

HC Hsueh, GY Guo, SG Louie - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2011 - APS
The quasiparticle band structure and optical properties of single-walled zigzag and armchair
SiC nanotubes (SiC-NTs) as well as a single SiC sheet are investigated by ab initio many …

Signatures of dimensionality and symmetry in exciton band structure: Consequences for exciton dynamics and transport

DY Qiu, G Cohen, D Novichkova… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Exciton dynamics, lifetimes, and scattering are directly related to the exciton dispersion or
band structure. Here, we present a general theory for exciton band structure within both ab …

Intervalley Excitonic Hybridization, Optical Selection Rules, and Imperfect Circular Dichroism in Monolayer

F Zhang, CS Ong, JW Ruan, M Wu, XQ Shi, ZK Tang… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We perform first-principles GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation calculations to investigate the
photophysics of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), revealing excitons with novel k …

Exciton states in monolayer MoSe2: impact on interband transitions

G Wang, IC Gerber, L Bouet, D Lagarde… - 2D …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy at 4 K with ab initio calculations to
study the electronic bandstructure of MoSe 2 monolayers. In one-photon photoluminescence …